 | Samuel Butler - 1881 - 270 páginas
...fight and dinner both. 355 In it he melted lead for bullets, To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets; To whom he bore so fell a grutch, He ne'er gave quarter t' any such. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, 3 6o For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of some body to hew and hack.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 páginas
...country's, PEACE— continued. Peace hath her victories, No less renowned than war. Milton, Sonnet 16, The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting, was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack. Puller, Hud. 1, I. 59. O beauteous peace... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 páginas
...Is nobler than a brave retreat. r. BUTLER— lludibras. Pt. I. Canto 1П. Line GOT. 4Г.Г, WAR. 457 c. Sir SAM'L BRYDGES — ¡Sonnet on the Heath of Sir Walter Scott. I awo And ate into itself for lack 0' somebody to hew and hack. a. BUTLEB— Hudibras. Ft. I. Cnnto I. Line... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 páginas
...for fight and dinner both ; In it he melted lead for bullets To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets, To whom he bore so fell a grutch, He ne'er gave quarter to any such. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...Lint 205. Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. Line 215. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ato into itself for lack Of somebody to hew and hack. Lint 359. For rhyme the rudder is of verses,... | |
 | Michael Brophy - 1886 - 186 páginas
...which was just the reverse of what happened to Hudibras, whose sword ate half the scabbard: — 1 ' The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate itself for lack Of somebody to hew and hack. The peaceful scabbard where it dwelt The rancour... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 páginas
...for fight and dinner both. In it he melted lead for bullets To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets, To whom he bore so fell a grutch He ne'er gave quarter to any such. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 494 páginas
...string, • Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal glorious king. " — George Herbert. (/) " The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty." — Butler. (?) "With beating heart to the task he went." — Scott. (A) " How calmly gliding through... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 266 páginas
...man's life, Make bracelets to adorn the wife Of the eternal glorious king. " — George Herbert. (/) "The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty. " — Butler. (g) " With beating heart to the task he went."— Scott, (h) " How calmly gliding through... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - 1891 - 258 páginas
...etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 50. In it he melted lead for bullets To shoot at foes and sometimes pullets, To whom he bore so fell a grutch, He ne'er gave quarter t' any such. S. Butter, Hudlbras, LL 858. Witty men are apt to Imagine they are agreeable as such. Steele, Spectator,... | |
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With basket-hilt that would hold broth, And serve for fight and dinner both; In it he melted lead for bullets To shoot at foes, and sometimes pullets, To whom he bore so fell a grutch, He ne'er gave quarter t 
